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'No. 627,437. Patented June 20, I899.

N. W. McLEOD.

PAPER HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 24, 1898.)

(No Model.)

4%wMM .JW nmzazeuz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON l/V. MOLEOD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO AMOS IV. STANDING, OF SAME PLACE. I

PAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,437, dated June 20, 1899.

Application filed September 24, 1898. Serial No. 691,773. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NELSON W. MOLEOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for holding loose sheets of paper, and is more particularly intended for holding railway and other tariff sheets. It is so constructed that a sheet can be readily removed and replaced by another, while at the same time the device when in use holds the sheets firmly together in a neat and efi'ective manner.

Myinvention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure I is a perspective view of my improved holder, the transfer-bar being shown in dotted lines. Fig. II is a detached perspective view showing the upper and "lower strips separated and showing the transfer-bar holding the removed sheets to the upper strip. Fig. III is a transverse section with the transfer-bar in elevation over the tubes.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a lower strip, and 2 an upper strip, between which the sheets of paper 3 are held.

4 represents tubes providing sockets and secured to the lower strip and which are externally screw-threaded to receive nuts 5. The tubes 4 receive the sheets of paper, which are firmly clamped between the upper and lower strips by tightening the nuts 5. The

device thus forms a neat and effective means of holding sheets of paper in a manner that will readily permit of a sheet being removed and replaced by another. When a sheet is to be removed, I employ a U-shaped rod or bar 6, onto which the nuts 5; the upper strip 2, and the sheets above the one to be removed are transferred. This is effected by slipping the ends of the rod or bar 6 into the tubes 4, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. I, and then by unscrewing the nuts 5 all that is above the sheet to be removed can be transferred to the rod 6 and turned over out of the way, as shown in the upper part of Fig. II. The sheet to be taken out is then removed from the tubes 4, and the new sheet, if one is to be inserted, is placed over the tubes, and then the rod 6, with the parts that it is holding, is turned back and its ends are inserted into the tubes, when the sheets removed with the rod will drop over the tubes and the nuts drop down onto the tubes, ready to be screwed again onto the tubes. The rod 6 is then laid aside until again needed.

I claim as my invention- 1. A paper-holder comprising an inner strip having externally-screw threaded tubes providin g sockets, the outer strip through which the tubes extend, and the nuts adjustable on the tubes; substantially as described.

2, paper-holder comprising an inner strip having externally-screw-threaded tubes providin g sockets, the outer strip through which the tubes extend, the nuts adjustable on the tubes, and the U-shaped rod having its ends insertible through the nuts and into the sockets of the tubes; substantially as described.

NELSON w. McLEOD.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, STANLEY STONER. 

